Africa | Uganda | Culture

Why women in Uganda don’t care about work-life balance

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Consistent research is highlighting the disadvantage faced by women, particularly mothers, in today's modern workplace. The most recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency suggests that women in management are paid 45% less than their male counterparts. Many women are torn between trying to be a 100% excellent worker and 100%perfect mother, and often feel like a failure at both as they are stretched too thin. I think it serves no purpose to dwell on all the difficult things that women have to deal with. We seem to reinforce this caricature of ourselves as working mother
Europe | U.K. | Health

Nearly half of women wrongly ‘blame themselves’ for miscarriage

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Women mistakenly believe that stress causes miscarriages, causing them to feel unnecessarily guilty, a new study shows Almost half of women who have miscarriages feel guilty and two in five feel like it was caused by something they did wrong, according to an American study. But in reality, 60 per cent of miscarriages are caused by a genetic problem and they are far more common than people think. An online study published in the Obstetrics and Gynecology journal found that a large number of women have the wrong ideas about what causes miscarriages, which leads to unnecess
South Asia | Australia | Educational

The part women play in domestic violence

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Women can only command real power once we socialise girls to take themselves seriously and develop mental grit. Violence against women gets a lot of press at the moment. As a woman, I find male violence always inexcusable and repugnant. As a clinical psychologist though I understand quite a lot about how and why it happens – since I frequently come up against it in my work. For sure, from a moral perspective the perpetrator is always at fault. Nonetheless, if we are to have any impact on stopping this violence, we need to understand how and why it often happens. From the perspective of how
North America | United States | Business

How Women Undermine Themselves With Words

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Here are some of the “little things” women do in speech and writing that aren’t really “little.” In fact, they have a huge impact in causing us to come across as less competent and confident: Inserting just: “I just want to check in and see…” “I just think…” Just tends to make us sound a little apologetic and defensive about what we’re saying. Think about the difference between the sound of “I just want to check in and see…” and “I want to check in and see…” or the difference between “I just think” and “I think…” Inserting actually: “I actu